The old medicine farmer searched for the crack repeatedly in a place of about a zhang, but he didn't find it, so he expanded the scope of searching, left and right, up and down, but half an hour passed, and still didn't find it, and fine beads of sweat oozed from the old medicine farmer's forehead, and he realized that he was still too reckless--that entrance was more than 200 years ago, maybe it had been sealed by the toad man.

At first, he felt quite relaxed, but now he is getting more and more nervous, but fortunately he is very good at rock climbing, and he can walk back and forth on the cliff wall with all his hands and feet.

I've been looking for a long time, but I still haven't found anything, what should I do?

The old medicine farmer carefully observed this cliff and found that from three or four zhang down, the cliff suddenly became extremely flat, and if he wanted to climb the cliff with his bare hands, even if he had extraordinary ability to climb the cliff, he was helpless.

As for the condition of the cliff wall further down, it is impossible to observe it from his current position.

At this time, an idea suddenly flashed in the old medicine farmer's mind - according to what Wang Xingguang said, there is a large ventilation opening in the cliff more than ten zhang, from where not only can you enter the cave, but also where the giant lingzhi grows.

But this is too risky: if the rope is mysteriously broken, you will also be thrown to your death.

And in this place, even if the vines and ropes are all broken, you can climb it with your own hands and feet. Do you want to continue the adventure, or do you want to abandon the operation?

Thinking about his huge gambling debts and his current situation, the old medicine farmer hesitated for a moment, and then decided to take a risk, he knew that further down, there were no vines, and he had to rely on the two ropes around his waist, and as soon as the rope was broken, his life would be over.

But since there was no way out, the old medicine farmer had no choice but to grit his teeth and pull the rope to descend quickly.

When it descended to more than ten zhang of place, the condition of the surface of the cliff changed again, from three or four zhang away the unusually smooth stone wall, suddenly became uneven again, and there were a lot of moss and a lot of weeds on the surface.

The old medicine farmer was very thoughtful, and he firmly remembered a principle, that is, as long as he could hold the rock wall with his bare hands, he would never rely on a rope. In this way, he can ensure his own safety to the greatest extent, after all, those medicine farmers before were all killed after the rope was broken.

So, when he quickly descended to more than ten zhang, as soon as he saw that the cliff wall became concave and convex again, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and immediately used his hands and feet to hold the cliff tightly, and when he grabbed the cliff, he suddenly felt that the rope around his waist was loosened, and the two rope heads fell from above: the rope was really broken.

Although he expected that the rope would break in advance, but it really happened, the old medicine farmer was still frightened and screamed, and suddenly he was covered in a cold sweat, he gasped heavily, tried to close his eyes, his heart was pounding, and he clung to the cliff, not daring to relax in the slightest, he knew that if he missed a little, he would fall into the abyss.

In order to relieve his fear, he shouted a few words of scolding, and then calmed down a little, the bad thing is that although the rock wall here is uneven, but the surface is very slippery because it is covered with moss and mud, which is a fatal danger for rock climbers, the old medicine farmer secretly complained in his heart, and did not dare to move at will.

At this moment, the old medicine farmer knew better than anyone else that he himself was already on the verge of death, because without the rope, it was impossible to climb back to it alone.

Because from three or four zhang to eight or nine zhang, the surface of the cliff is very smooth, and it is impossible to climb at all, that is to say, without the rope, just that area cannot be crossed.

In this way, the old medicine farmer was trapped alive on the cliff, unable to come up or down, can he only wait for death like this? The old medicine farmer knew in his heart that it was very exhausting to hold on to the rock wall in this way, and it would not be long before his body would be exhausted, and then he would fall into the abyss like a leaf.

He mustered enough strength and shouted loudly, "Help, help", and shouted more than ten times in a row, and his voice was hoarse, but on the cliff, there was still no movement, this mountain was already sparsely populated, and people knew that this cliff was haunted, and they usually avoided walking, so it was impossible for anyone to save him, and shouting hoarsely like this could only accelerate the consumption of the body and make him die faster.

Thinking of this, the old medicine farmer stopped shouting for help, and after calming down a little, he realized that in this case, there was no other choice but to save himself.

The old medicine farmer adjusted his breathing slightly, and with the strength of his hands and feet, he stretched his body away from the cliff wall a little, so that his vision was much wider, and he could see the situation on the cliff wall better.

Sure enough, not far from him, the old medicine farmer saw a few giant lingzhi the size of watermelons, that is, what he thought about for a long time, and could solve his problems, this location of the cliff was really a place where giant lingzhi was clustered, but at this time, he couldn't be happy - he would die immediately, even if he could pick these lingzhi, what was the use?

He sighed deeply, thinking that this qiē might be fate, he had climbed the cliff for so many years, but he didn't expect to fall from the cliff in the end.

At this moment, he saw something moving next to a Ganoderma lucidum, and the old medicine farmer was shocked, and quickly held his breath and looked closely, it turned out to be the head of a drill mountain carapace.

The pangolin stuck out his head, and suddenly saw the old medicine farmer lying on the cliff, and was also startled, and quickly retracted his head and disappeared again.

Seeing this scene, the old medicine farmer's eyes lit up - since there were pangolins, there were probably holes there.

This sudden accident ignited the hope of the old medicine farmer to live, and his limbs, which were already a little stiff and sore, suddenly had strength again, he gritted his teeth, and hurriedly moved to the place where the pangolin appeared, although it was only a few feet, but because the rock wall surface here was too slippery, and there was loose soil, he fell out of danger several times, and the old medicine farmer almost fell down.

When he finally moved to that place, the old medicine farmer was already sweating profusely and soaking wet. When he grabbed the rock wall with his hand and looked up, he suddenly saw a hole open in front of him, which was large enough for a man to climb into, but it was already covered with grass, and if it wasn't too close, he couldn't see it at all.

At this time, the old medicine farmer couldn't care about the giant Lingzhi under the cave entrance, he hurriedly stretched out his right arm, grabbed the lower wall of the cave entrance, and then with a force, the whole body hung up, and then stretched out his left arm to grab the cave entrance, and with a force on both arms, his head slowly stretched into the cave first, and then the whole body also went in.

When his whole body was in the cave, the old medicine farmer lay there first, crying loudly and proudly. Complex feelings such as deep fear and despair in the face of death, as well as the joy of being born in a desperate situation, erupted at this time.

After crying for a long time, the old medicine farmer felt a lot better in his heart, and his feelings slowly calmed down, so he hurriedly leaned out of the cave and picked the giant lingzhi under the cave entrance.

Now that his mind is slowly clearing, he knows that even in this cave, there are many dangers, in case he encounters a toad man, maybe he will also die, he does not dare to stay any longer, and he does not want to think about other Lingzhi at all, and there is only one thought in his heart - to get out quickly.

This giant Lingzhi can not only allow him to pay off his gambling debts, but also make him worry-free for the rest of his life.

The old medicine farmer walked up quickly along the spiral tunnel, this cave is really like Wang Xingguang said, on the side close to the cliff wall, every short distance up and down, there is a fist-sized ventilation opening, for the old medicine farmer, he wants to find the entrance to the hole, as long as he finds the hole about a zhang away, he can get out from there, and then grab the vines and climb up the cliff.

After a while, he reached the top of this spiral-shaped cave, and the old medicine farmer knew that this place should have the entrance to the cave, so he carefully searched the cave wall on the other side of the cliff.

Because there was no vent in this position, the cave was pitch black, although there was a match and a candle in the bag around his waist, but he did not take it out and light it, and the old medicine farmer knew in his heart that only in the dark could he find the light coming in from the outside, and the place that penetrated the light was probably the hole stuffed with stones.

It worked, and in the dark hole, it was easy to spot the light coming in from the outside, even if it was unusually faint.

In one place on the wall of the cave, a faint light came through, and the old medicine farmer was excited, and hurriedly ran over and tried to push hard above the gap with his hand.

What made the old medicine farmer ecstatic was that the place where he pushed it with his hand was indeed a movable stone, and he pushed the stone hard, and he heard a bang, and the stone was pushed out, and a hole suddenly appeared in front of the old medicine farmer's eyes.

The old medicine farmer didn't think much about it, and hurriedly came out of the hole, grabbed the vines, used his hands and feet together, and soon climbed to the cliff. The process of picking giant lingzhi this time is even more thrilling than Wang Xingguang's.

And this huge Ganoderma lucidum, in a pharmacy in Shanghai, was sold for a high price of 30,000 oceans, and the old medicine farmer had never seen so much money, which not only made him pay off his gambling debts, but also became one of the richest people in the area.

The old medicine farmer is not an ungrateful person, he took out 10,000 of them to give to Wang Xiucai, but Wang Xiucai said that he would not accept anything, and under the repeated insistence of the old medicine farmer, Wang Xiucai had to accept 5,000.

In addition, the old medicine farmer also deliberately went to Wang Xingguang's cemetery and burned a lot of paper money and paper horses, he felt that if Wang Xingguang's previous experience and experience were not available, he would not have succeeded.

Compared with Wang Xingguang, the old medicine farmer was much luckier - he gave birth to six sons, and there were more than 20 grandchildren, which can be regarded as a full house of children and grandchildren.

Later, he also ran a pharmacy, the business was doing well, and after the liberation, he donated his pharmacy and real estate to the state, plus he was usually kind and charitable, and had a good reputation in the township, so even during the Cultural Revolution, he was not criticized and impacted.

With the progress of the times, the large-scale plague has gradually disappeared, and those toad people seem to have never appeared again, and slowly, no one in the vicinity said that they had seen those "little ghosts" anymore.

The story told by the geologist is simply legendary, and the bizarre twists and turns of this plot are no less than those we have encountered before.

What's more, this incident gives us a very important clue - inside the cliff, there is a cave that leads to the bottom of the cliff.

Our area was originally deep in the mountains, and there were even some places that no one had visited for thousands of years, so there was no clear and detailed map at all, and how to get to the bottom of that cliff was all up to us to explore.

But time was pressing, and it was difficult for us to spend a dozen days, or even more, slowly exploring the way to the bottom of the cliff - maybe there was no road at all - and the cave inside the cliff was probably the best option for us, and it was the quickest way to get to the bottom of the cliff.

After weighing the pros and cons for a while, we decided to give it a try, albeit with a lot of danger.